COVERSTORY Al Maktoum International Airport – the world’s largest designed airport – will become a reality in the next few years time
hotel rooms across Dubai South will be completed. Moreover, as the city comes together with a fully fledged infrastructure (roads, landscape, lights, parks, paved walkways, etc) there shall be several communal services such as Green spaces, children playgrounds, walkways and jogging/cycling tracks, Sports facilities, clinics, ample of parking spaces, KG-G12 School with 6,000 seats and a 150-200 bed Hospital... Ultimately, Dubai South will provide residences and working population to support 1 million people.
This rate of development will accelerate by 2025 with over 12,000 dwellings and 30,000 residents. Beyond 2030 the community has the capability to deliver in excess of 45,000 apartments and a residential population of 145,000 persons targeting affordable lifestyle and compressive services that will include schools, hospitals and retail. From inception, Dubai South sought reputed third party developers that will provide half of residences planned with the other half developed by Dubai South properties to enable afford-
able and a lifestyle focused projects. To update our progress, in 2018, there are approx 6,000 people set to live within Dubai South Staff accommodation that will provide a core advantage to logistics operations within the Freezone and ensure happiness across all demographic categories.
You recently said, that Dubai South would put some guiding principles for developers of education and healthcare facilities to keep the prices, rates low – on order to support the communities
in order to make the community a happy one. Could you kindly explain your own vision behind this? Dubai South is a powerful idea for us to execute. But what is – a collection of buildings interconnected with roads for seamless movement? When we were asked to develop a world-class city, we looked at the human factor closely. What makes a good city and what makes its residents happy? The human factor and their happiness is at the core of what we are developing today. We want to create an ideal environment for living and working. Human beings and their happiness is at the core of what we are developing now. So, the city has to have room for everyone and we want an integrated community that is inclusive as well. If a professional has to spend two hours to reach his work place then four hours from his daily life has been wasted on commuting. Why? So, we looked at the human factors and designed the city accordingly. There is a room for everyone in Dubai South. So, we are talking to the school and hospital operators to help them keep the service charges and fees low so that people can get quality education for their children at a good and affordable price, at the same time ensuring that the hospitals and clinics do not charge exorbitant fees. g Gulf Property
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